AltSci Cell

Success is defined by goals achieved and hypothesis confirmed. I have succeeded
in many ways in my project Digg
Diversity and yet it is not nearly ready for version 1.0. It remains Beta
because there are issues that a person cannot overlook. On the other hand, I am
able to use it everyday without any important issues stopping me. I suspect
that anyone who likes Digg and doesn't like users that abuse Digg's front page
can use this as an alternative front page.

One issue that I'd like to address
in version 1.0 is to allow a larger set of data to be shown and compared. By
multiplying the number of articles shows by 20 and filtering out all those
items that will be given a score of zero (or less than 1.0) from the current
version, the competition will become quite a lot fiercer for Digg Diversity's
front page. Items that would never show up on Digg's front page will show up at
the top of some or even all of Digg Diversity's users' list. The main success
in Digg Diversity's 1.5 month Beta so far is that it has perfectly followed my
hypothesis that is far graver than I even imagined when I wrote
a rant against Digg
at the initial release of Digg Diversity. In fact, the data that I currently
possess is far graver than anyone could possibly know besides Digg or the
Cabals that run Digg's front page could guess.

* The page's contents depend on
previous visits, so no one else's front page will look exactly like mine.

You can see on the very first one, 27 diggers scored 6.0 divvs. The reason for
this is because each of the diggers had been seen before multiple times. In
fact, the first two are nortorious (SocialWarrior seen by me 22 times (.045
divvs, practially worthless) and tonychenyj seen by me 15 times (5 on this page
alone)).

A second example if that isn't enough: The last 3 articles are submitted by 3
different diggers, but the first person to digg them is tonychenyj (see above).
The second on the last two is both whiteblackninja (20 diggs). The third for
the last two is TouchingWood. Both of the last two contain ubernoggin as well.
This is no coincidence.

You might wonder how I am finding the diggers. I am sorting by time,
which shows that these people dugg these articles first, before it reached the
front page. These people know about these articles before they hit the front
page because their friends are the ones who are submitting the articles. They
have a group of people who are choosing the front page content by voting
together. This seems innocent enough, but their articles are the only thing
that frequenters of Digg's front page ever see. They are corrupting this
democratic news source with mob rule proving that democracy is tyrrany in this
virtual setting. They are able to get away with this behavior with the
encouragement of Digg's staff.

It is impossible for my experiment to turn over anything but more damning
evidence against specific individuals and groups who conspire to corrupt Digg's
front page by force. Alas looking at the evidence that has proven my theory, I
can only aspire to advance my algorithm to further expose this fraud being
perpetuated against the very readers of Digg. I hope that any users who read
this or hear about this will stop viewing the Digg front page and will read
Digg Diversity instead as it grows into a fair system to actually read news,
not some random group's idea of what Digg should look like. I also challenge
the owners of Digg to address these issues and reply to my accusations.

Today Digg Diversity was featured as Mashup of the Day at ProgrammableWeb**
which gained 90 views of my website. I hope that some of those viewers will be
interested enough to continue visiting this website. I will continue to strive
toward making this website a valid alternative to Digg's front page. Wish me
luck and tell a friend on Digg about this project.

** Full Disclosure: I am a contracter for ProgrammableWeb and influenced the
Mashup of the Day process. Since the site is moderated by an admin, I waited
over a month for my Mashup to be accepted which is the same as any other user.
I beat out two Mashups for Mashup of the Day and I feel I earned it.

Also, you probably have no way of telling (besides the link at the bottom of
the Digg Diversity page) that the information about who has digged the articles
you have viewed is persistent across session if you are using Firefox. I wrote
a very interesting piece of code that persists the data using
window.globalStorage, an HTML ECMAScript (Javascript) object that allows you to
store user information without using Cookies. This data does not get
communicated to AltSci Concepts or to Digg, it is only for users to gain an
essential feature (more data allows for more correct numbers). Instead of using
a proxy and computing these on the server side, persisting the data with the
browser allows users to carry this information without any server interference.
I recommend looking at the javascript file that powers Digg Diversity if you
are at all interested in this technology.